Gail Thacker graduated from The Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts in conjunction with the Tufts University and MIT degree program. In Boston, where along with her peers, friends and collaborators such as Mark Morrisroe, Pat Hearn, Stephen Tashjian (Tabboo!) and Jack Pierson, are all considered to be part of a group of artists labeled The Boston School.
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Photography
Thacker's Polaroid photography has been published and exhibited internationally. Considering herself a Pataphysician, her work explores a made-up neuroscience, which investigates a state between remembering and forgetting — who we are and who we have created (the Transmagical).
Thacker's work has been seen in exhibitions at museums and galleries including Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago, Spain; and the Safety Gallery, the June Bateman Gallery, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Clamp Art and Participant, Inc. in New York. Her Polaroid work is included in such collections as The Polaroid Collection (Somerville, Massachusetts), FotoMuseum (Winterthur, Switzerland), CGAC (Santiago, Spain), the Fisher Collection (Florida) and the New York Public Library and is featured in publications such as, The Polaroid Book (Taschen), Familiar Feelings (on the Boston Group), There was a Sense of Family: The Friends of Mark Morrisroe (Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg), Mark Dirt (Paper Chase Press), Tabboo! The Art of Stephen Tashjian (Distributed Art Publishers), along with articles in such newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Press, The New Yorker, Providence Town Magazine and The Village Voice, and a soon to be released book on her Polaroid art which will include essays by Eileen Myles and Manuel Segade in a bilingual Spanish and English edition.
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ClampArt
June Bateman Fine Art
Landscapes
Portraits
Boston
Theatre
In 2005, Thacker took over the helm of the Gene Frankel Theatre, since which her work has documented the memory of the artistic community at the Gene Frankel Theatre. She has worked with artist such as Stephen Tashjian, Holly Woodlawn, Sur Rodney Sur and Arleen Schloss, and Chi Chi Valenti keeping a sense of underground art and performance art alive in New York City.